Sign in to your IXL teacher account and visit the “Class Usage Log” report, which can be found by clicking on the “Reports” tab, and then under “Usage.” You can also find it by visiting www.ixl.com/reports/usage/class.

Once you reach this report, set the time range to between March 17 and present, and select the specific class you want to check. Select “Problems attempted” and click “Update report.” You will see the total number of problems this class has attempted at the bottom of the report.

Will you be posting the rankings of classes so we can see where we stand in the competition?

Yes, we will be posting the rankings every Monday before noon PST until we announce the winners on April 18th.

I have more than one class. Is each class calculated separately?

Each class is calculated separately. As long as your students are divided into classes of 50 or less students on your “Roster” page, every class on your roster will be entered.

Will IXL count questions for previously mastered skills?

Yes! We want to allow students to review topics, so students may work on previously mastered skills.

Will IXL be factoring in the number of students in each class?

We do divide the contest into elementary, middle, and high school, as class sizes tend to be similar within these categories. However, we are not taking the number of students enrolled in each class into consideration for this contest.

Can homeschoolers participate?

This particular contest is just for school licenses. We will be having more contests in the future that will be open to other kinds of subscriptions, so keep an eye out!

For more information on the Spring Learning Showdown, see our original post.

Will you have contests in the future that DO consider class sizes? I have a group of 16 students in 6th grade, 17 in 7th grade and 26 in 8th grade that are trying to compete, and if they are competing with 50 students, they would have to work about 3 times as hard in the smaller classes to compete. I have only 59 students total. Should I put 50 of them in a class? Do the other schools have the 50 students in one class? So far we are over 30,000 problems with all 59 students, but they are split into 3 groups right now. In either case, I do appreciate that you are running a contest and I have given my classes goals and they are responding very well, so it is a good idea.

Hi, Kalynn. We’re so glad to hear that your students are responding well to the goals you set for the contest!

Since this is a classroom contest, it is best if each of your classes is entered independently. If you have more than one class indicated on your Roster, each of them will be counted separately. Most of the classes in the showdown, including most of the current leaders, have fewer than 35 students in their classes.

That being said, we are definitely considering future contest formats that would be more accommodating for different class sizes. Good luck to all of your classes!

I agree. You have to consider the number of students in each class. Even if most have no more than 35 the ones that put all of their students in one class will dominate. Fun contest, but not really a fair one.

Agree with the comments about class size. I have an advanced class of 4th-6th graders that I pull out to do 7th and 8th grade math. There are only six of them and they were so excited about this contest, but so bummed that they won’t be able to really win anything when it is against full classes. I have a sixth grader who has already mastered every 7th grade skill and is now trying to conquer 8th grade!

Hi, Tanya. We only posted up the top ten rankings for each category. You can compare how your class stands by finding out how many questions your students have answered using the Class Usage Report at http://www.ixl.com/reports/usage/class. The Spring Learning Showdown is open to all classes using IXL around the world. Keep on practicing because the top *three* classes in each division will win! Good luck!

Any chance you can post how many students are in each class? I have 15 2nd grade students in my class and we answered about 6,000 questions. I’m just curious how my students did compared to the leaders, but it’s hard to determine without knowing class size. Perhaps next contest can be total questions divided by number of students to get an average? Just an idea. I love IXL and have been using both math and language arts all year. Keep up all the great work!!!

Hi, Mike. Thanks for your comment. 6,000 questions is certainly an excellent achievement for 15 students, and they should be very proud of themselves! Most of the leading classes in the contest are smaller than 35 students.

Future contests will be catered to smaller class sizes too, so stay posted! We will be having a summer contest to encourage students to keep learning over break, and we hope to have contests next school year as well.

Hi, Lori. Due to the high number of classes registered for the contest, we cannot post rankings for each one. There is info about how to check the number of questions your class has done in the post above, and you can use this number to compare how your class is doing to the top ten classes. We wish you and your students the best of luck!

Hi, Lanaya. Were you asking whether you can practice IXL offline with an Android tablet? In order to practice IXL on any device you do have to be online. You can visit IXL.com with a web browser to begin.

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Do the problems have to be correct to count or are the problems attempted counted as well. I have a friend in another school and the child just clicks on any answer and gets thousands of problems done but isn’t trying to learn the skill.

Hi, Dawn. We think that incorrect answers can be an important part of the learning process, so this contest does count all practice, within the limits stated by the rules here. Of course, we hope that teachers will use this contest as a way of motivating their students to learn, and we encourage them to make sure their students are practicing responsibly.

What if… you have less than 20 students in you’re class………………………………………….. or what if… they had cheats to answer a random math answer in every question 24 7??? Can you guys check if they were on 24 7? if they were, can you not count them?

Hi, Neil. Rest assured, we will be carefully reviewing all practice and times practiced to make sure it complies with contest rules. Any illegitimate practice will not count towards the final total. We wish your class the best of luck in this final stretch!

Congrats to all of our awesome users who have completed 10,000 problems on IXL, and classrooms that have completed 100,000 questions! To be featured in this album, email a picture of your student holding their certificate to rockstars@ixl.com, or post it here on our Facebook page!